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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens SNOS Snow and soft media users 1520111 for their clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) Apple has agreed to pay up to $25 million (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 182 million yuan) to resolve allegations of discrimination in hiring. Of that amount, $18.25 million will be used to set up a compensation fund for affected victims, while the remaining $6.75 million will be civil fines, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.

The Justice Department found that Apple violated the Immigration and nationality Act when recruiting foreign workers through the permanent Labor Certificate Program (PERM), which allows Apple to hire foreign workers permanently in the United States. The Justice Department said Apple did not post job postings on its website when recruiting workers for the program, but it would post other job postings on its website.

The Justice Department also found that Apple only accepts applicants who apply for PERM jobs by mail and "does not consider" some applications sent electronically. "these inefficient recruitment procedures almost always result in few or no applications for PERM positions for applicants with unexpired work permits," the Justice Department said.

In the settlement agreement, Apple denied engaging in illegal recruitment. "when we realized that we had inadvertently failed to follow the standards of the Justice Department, we agreed to a settlement to address their concerns," Fred Sainz Sainz, an Apple spokesman, said in an emailed statement to The Verge. "We have implemented a strong remedial plan to comply with the requirements of various government agencies as we continue to hire American workers and develop in the United States."

In addition to the fine of up to $25 million, the Justice Department asked Apple to "recruit more widely all PERM positions" by posting PERM jobs on its recruitment website and accepting digital applications. The Justice Department says Apple has solved some of these problems.

In addition to Apple, the Justice Department filed a recruitment discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX, accusing companies owned by Elon Musk of refusing to hire asylum-seekers and refugees. However, SpaceX managed to prevent the case on the grounds that the administrative judge in charge of the case had been "illegally appointed".

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